Survivor Pass: Vikendi DLC

Atrocious missions which are too grindy. Really now drive 500km in a buggy? Not only that distance is insane for this game to be traveled, but in a specific vehicle too? Basicly i'll have to choose between playing normal and driving like a ♥♥♥♥♥♥ around the map for god knows how many matches until i finish this mission? And a lot more retarded things like this. Let's not talk about the fact that even daily missions are horrible, use 5 adrenaline syrenges in a day? Do you even know how hard it is to find 1 syrenge, but 5? The skins you can get from this pass are really nice, but the grind is insane, really can't recommend.

The only reason I can think of for the existence of many of these retarded challenges is that some debilitated middle manager who no dev can really say "no" to, was tasked with coming up with ways to maximise the sales of the purchasable level-ups.

The Challenges are REALLY stupid. Basically you have to choose to try and play a game of PUBG or do the stupid challenges. They're also incredibly boring. I don't mind if I have to dive down 10m in Vikendi, but don't make me do it 10 different matches. That's just idiotic.

Missions are absolute trash, requiring hours of boring grinding for small amounts of XP. This is a cashgrab

Drive Mirado for 2 hours, drive buggy for 500000 meters, throw 10 grenades in one match (Have you ever found 10 grenades in a match?). This is not battle pass but punishment.

missions are insanely tedious compare to other battle royales games and if you are aimming for level 100, I can see people needing to spend like 4 hours+ per day - requires you to play certain maps when they just release vikendi - survival experience is insanely long to cap 4800 (I think its 8 hours survival time as 2 hour survival real-time only gave me 1000. 4800 is just half a level) - do tasks that just basically pointless such as shoot 300 ammo of UZI in single match 5x - some of the missions don't even work - dont bother with beginner mission as everyone doing it right now and you will get massive fps drops

The rewards are varied, quite nice and, this time around, they're permanent. That's the good part. The only good part. You are basically paying to farm annoying missions that force to not properly play the game or have any fun doing them. Driving 500km in a buggy, shooting 300 bullets with the Uzi in a single match 3 times, throw 10 grenades in a single match 3 times and so on. If you like farming of the worst possible caliber, go ahead and press the Purchase button...

While I will admit this pass has broughty me back to the game, I cannot tell you enough times to avoid buying this. The cosmetic rewards are not worth the price, or the agonizing pain of trying to do these premium missions. Nearly every aspect of this pass is strategically designed to work against you and ask for more money. I'll break this up by sections: First, the exclusive missions, and second the coupon system and overall pricing. If you bought the previous pass you should already have an idea of how frustrating these challenges are. Although these missions are not just as difficult as those, they are still misguiding and extremely difficult to achieve. The pass starts off fairly easy: some missions tell you to land in certain locations, some tell you to kill 30 players over time, and the player does not need to go out of his/her way to grind these challenges as they are accomplished over time. This is how the entire pass SHOULD be structured. Instead, as you progress though mission chains and level up, the challenges become both difficult to understand and far more difficult to execute. For example, three missions instruct to land at a location and get 10 kills. easy enough right? Nope. you need to land at these locations and get at least 1 kill 10 times. thats landing and getting at least one kill 30 times. Once you understand the real meaning of a challenge and its spelled out plainly its obvious the odds are unfair. This is only one example. there are numerous challenges telling you to accomplish tedious tasks that cannot be done multiple times per game. So far the most absurd challenge I've encountered was "park a vehicle in the red zone on vikendi(the new map). Upon doing this, you are THEN prompted to do it 4 more times. not only that, but yes, they must be done one per game. While this is one problem I have with the mission, the other point to make is the thought process involved in the making of these challenges. WHY am i being asked to fire THREE HUNDRED rounds from a micro uzi in a single game FIVE TIMES?? the challenges require odd and absurd actions from the player left and right. Upon dropping into games, i often ask myself "do I want to win and play the game the way its meant to be played? or do i want to dive into the deepest part of the ocean and drown, land in an isolated location and shoot 300 bullets at walls, or charge into redzones and park my vehicle there??". BLUEHOLE these missions should ALL be in correspondance to how the game is played. I should not be going out of my way to do some rediculous busy work for some extra xp. I did not spend $10 to make PUBG less eventful. Next, I will cover the new coupon system and the $10 price tag on the pass. With this new update the coupons were added. these basically are achieved at each level up and are used in a separate market where players can get exclusive event cosmetics. While I think its a cool addition, this too is made somewhat difficult to progress through. First off, there are three coupon types: blue, yellow, and white. Each of them having different values as only a certain color can be used to buy certain items. The white coupons are used to buy generally unwanted cosmetics such as common gloves boots and sawed off skins: things you wouldn't really want. Meanwhile yellow is a median and blue is the color used to buy the really good stuff. And of course, blue must be the hardest to obtain. Not only that, but while an item would require 5 white cards, or 10 yellows, the higher tier requires 14 blue cards. If you SOMEHOW manage to finish the entire level system and reach lvl 100 without purchasing any coupons or levels, you MIGHT be able to get 2 items with your blue cards. While some dont see this as a huge problem, its still a clear attempt at a money grab, just like the rest of this DLC pass. Lastly I'll review the complete product considering the pricetag. The only way to make this product worth the buy, is to complete all 100 levels. And doing so would require 24/7 mission grinding for nearly 3 months. I cant see how a human being would be capable of doing this, seeing that first of all thats a lot of gaming and secondly these missions are incredibly boring and make the game less enjoyable. Buying this pass is simply a gateway for Bluehole to ask you for more money. All for cosmetics? A majority of players wouldn't even consider it but if you are just know that you WILL regret this decision.

The negative reviews for this pass are by no means exaggerated, it's one of the worst DLC passes in a mainstream game, period. You are basically paying $10 so you can do chores, and none of them are remotely fun. Most of the missions fall under 3 categories: 1) Grinding- Do the same boring task over and over for hours until you eventually do the task enough times to meet the parameter (example: Drop 15 times in Sanhok's Quarry). 2) Situational- These tasks require several limitations to complete, and often require the stars to align multiple times to complete (example: Kill 3 players in Mylta in 1 game, 3 different times). 3) Impossible/Bugged/Unreasonable: These missions aren't as common as the other two categories, but it's the most unacceptable as they are not functional, horribly unrealistic for the player to complete, or just tasks that the player would have to spend hours and hour to try to complete (examples: Stop driving in the redzone 5 times (doesn't work)/Drive 500km in a buggy (which takes like 10+ hours if you're lucky)). Don't buy this unless PUBG is your life, and you have disposable income. I completely regret my purchase, and it honestly made me lose faith in developers entirely. Blue Hole is just in it for the money, and does not care about you. So long as their game makes money, you can suffer and scream as much as you'd like, and they will do little to nothing to remedy the situation. I'm done with this game, and so are a lot of other people.

I love this game, but this mission pass actually makes the game overall less fun. To complete missions and level up is total chore, some missions requiring over 4 hours of grinding, whilst makeing you actively not take part in the actual game. Its all set up to make you feel the need to buy levels. Bit of a joke really.